Abstract The Purpose of this project is to have an automated system that will automatically register the person entering the ECE Lab. Obviously, this aims to aid the manual attendance checking of the ECE students upon entering the said facility. The inputs that are going to use are the fingerprints of every students enrolled in BSECE course. This study will use qualitative method such as choosing the type of fingerprint scanner and also would use quantitative approach for determining the number of students entering on a certain time allocated for. Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Due to the easy availability of almost all information on the internet these days, students are less and less motivated to come to the lecture rooms than ever before. Professors and instructors have to come up with ways to ensure a healthy participation from the students, and make sure that the “classic” student professor interactive relationship is kept intact. This in the some cases may be in simple forms like roll call, while in more interesting cases, can be formats like surprise quizzes, extra credit in class, etc. These things can however be very time-consuming. Valuable in-class time that could have otherwise been used for lectures need to be dedicated to “attendance” taking. In addition to all this, the attendances are entered manually and therefore are error prone. Now, with this study, it will aid that certain problem. Using the fingerprint scanner, the task of taking a classroom attendance becomes just a single “point” of the thumb finger. A most vivid type of scanner that is good to use with this project is the capacitance fingerprint scanner because the images are more exact and precise comparing to the optical scanner. With regards to the construction, a moving fingerprint scanner is better because the scanner runs regularly over the fingerprint. Automated lightings can also be obtained through the use of the LDRs (Light Depending Resistors) and simple lasers. The LDR and the laser is place in both sides of the door. Consequently, this system also will use a microcontroller that will control the mechanism of the LDR and laser to the lightings. When a person enters the laboratory room, the laser pointing to the LDR will be obstructed and will cause a counter1 to increment every time there is a person entering and also will increment the counter2 if there is a person going out. Actually, there are 2 pairs of LDRs and lasers that are necessary to commit this system. They should be placed in horizontal manner. If the pair1 is obstructed first, then it means that there is a person entering the room, and also if the pair2 is obstructed first, it means that there is a person coming out the room. 1.2 Statement of the Problem In order to come up with a reasonable research study, the researchers wanted to answer the following statements: a. What are the main components in order to have an automatic attendance system? b. What are the advantages and advantages of this project? c. In what ways do biometrics functioning? 1.3 Objective The objective of this project study is to provide the ECE Laboratory the ease to record the attendances by having an automatic attendance system. 1.4 Significance of the Study This study is significant for the following reasons a. It will aid the manual attendance system in the ECE Lab. b. It will widen the time to lecture/laboratory works instead of picking a time to check the attendances. c. It will provide the teachers and students the ease of turning the lights on/off. d. It will record the number of person entering the laboratory room at a certain time. 1.5 Scope and Limitation This research is for the benefit of the ECE faculty and ECE students for the ease of works in the ECE Lab. This study limits its coverage on having an automatic attendance and automatic lighting system in the ECE laboratory only. Its main purpose is to give the students and the teachers the ease upon entering the said facility. This study considers every aspect of the ECE Laboratory guidelines. Thus, this would be implemented during or after the second semester of the school year 2010 – 2011.